cash out
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.91 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To reconcile at the end of a shift; to compare receipts of items sold to records of credit card, check and cash placed into the drawer, verifying that correct change was given out by the clerk.
American usage
verb
To explain what is entailed by an idea or proposition.
Example Sentences
- "The real benefits accrued not to the public whose streets were flooded with unregulated taxis or workers whose livelihoods evaporated, but to Uber’s early investors who were still able to cash out when the company went public."
- "Hume cashed out the concept of causation into such experiential terms as spatiotemporal contiguity, temporal succession, and constant conjunction."
- "If you can't even succeed with him, you might as well cash out."
Usage
- American usage
- Informal
- Intransitive verb